From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 23:55:17 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: add a planning document for the next CLI revamp
Message-ID: <gedhh6$urq$1@ger.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <1225387882.19891.9.camel@maia.lan>

Sam Vilain wrote:

> It's not about magic, it's about sensible defaults.  Currently this use
> case is an error, and the resultant command is very long to type, and
> involves typing the branch name twice.  I end up writing things like:
> 
>   git checkout -b {,origin/}wr34251-do-something

Can't you use currently

    git checkout --track origin/wr34251-do-something


P.S. Somehow I don't see first message in this thread on GMane...
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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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